Outside REading-Week 2 Post B

Dear Mitchell,

I'm really enjoying your memoir thus far. I can really connect with you in the sense that you have dreams to do something, but you forget about them and begin to focus on something that you used to look at as unimportant and depressing. There is not a whole lot that I can say about your book right now, but what I can say is that I can tell it's going to give me a better perspective of life, and a whole new way to look at life. Possibly in a more positive light. As Morrie says in one of his quotes, " So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are unimportant. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning"(43). To me this says a lot, as cliche as it is, these are really influential words and a great goal to get to and live by.
One thing I'll say that I don't understand is when you talk about your past in your college days. You speak as though he died when you were still in college, but then when you move forward to the future in the last days of Morrie's life and you note that it is sixteen years later. Also, you mention that he found out about his illness when you were still in college, but it says that Morrie only ahd a couple years to live, and he said that he knew it was even less. So when you are in the present are you referring to your meetings with Morrie on Tuesdays as part of your class? as though it were college? Well I hope to figure that out soon becuase I know you don't read these, let alone know about them so I don't expect you to get back to me.


sincerely,
Grace M.